Gaurav Mishra (gauravanim on the forums) will be giving a one-hour presentation on Blender at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India tomorrow. The presentation is part of the  Coda-Voda workshop.

Good luck, Gaurav - don't forget to send pictures!

The Elephants Dream project continues to leave an impression…

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B-Con3 is here and its time to lend a helping hand. Consider this…

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Did you check out the Apricot Blog lately? If you didn`t, you should take a look at a small massive list of features, requested for the project.

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If you can't hardly wait for the Apricot project, to see Blender used in a game production pipeline. There is a game project called VDrift, which uses Blender for the same purpose.

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CG Channel have published part of their training DVD 'CG Pack Part 1': Female Walk Cycle.

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A while ago I had the chance of getting my hands on the ManCandy FAQ DVD, made by Bassam Kurdali. This is the first title of the "Open Movie Workshop" series, produced by Blender Foundation.

After watching about 7 hours of videos I have to say: this is a must have if you are serious about making rigging and animating with Blender.

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Fabien Weibel has made this great and detailed tutorial of how to make an atomic bomb (or any other massive) explosion. The result looks really good so don't miss this intermediate/advanced level tutorial!

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Towards the middle of last year I was contracted by Natcoll (An educational publisher) to write a book that introduces school students to Blender. After much hard work the book is now printed and is being sold to schools around the world.

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Remember Adam Procter's short 'Doljer'? Director's Notes, a website on independent filmmaking, have posted a 35-minute interview with him.

Links

• 'Doljer' Released, Including .Blend Files
• 'Doljer' Playing on UK Filmfestival Filmstock

Many Blender users are experiencing problems with the interface speed when running Blender on Leopard. These issues seem to be related to an update in the OpenGL graphic system that Apple made in 10.5. After a bit of experimenting, a group of users found a solution.

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If you don't have plans for tonight yet and you're lucky enough to live in Barcelona then maybe you can check out this masterclass. Sorry for the late post!

Here's another timelapse video created by Jonathan Williamson. The original modeling time was about one hour and the timelapse video cones in at just under ten minutes.

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Enjoy this long (101 minutes) and lively discussion between some the industry's leading artists and directors.

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Well well, 2008 is starting to look like the year that Blender Magazines started appearing everywhere around the world. After announcing the German Blenderzin only four days ago, the Italian community now also have their own magazine. The first issue (mirror 1, 2) is 55 pages long, contains tons of interesting material AND a picture of the illustrious Espresso-machine the Italian community sent to the Peach team :). Too bad I don't speak Italian!

The user amorilia of the crymod.com forum has updated his FarCry export script
for Blender so that you can export objects to be used in the ego shooter game
"Crysis"
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Some exciting changes in Blender and the development is at BCON 3

"The work of the past half year - also thanks to the open movie project "Peach" - has resulted in a greatly improved feature set, worth releasing! We currently are scheduling a 2.46, to accompany the Peach movie release in april/may 2008."

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I'm not gonna spoil it for you - check out the video.

*proud*

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